phonemicizationn.

1942 C. F. Hockett in Language 18 20 Grammatical work is carried on, of course, in cases where phonological information is incomplete... But many of the gaps and ambiguities in such grammar have their source directly in the lack of complete phonemicization.

1948 C. F. Hockett in Language 24 123 He should make his phonemic interpretation clearly recognizable..by including for every form cited..a possible phonemicization.

1975 N. Chomsky Logical Struct. Ling. Theory vi. 163 There is no need to think of phonemes as literally occurring in sequence, each with its distinctive physical properties, in the stream of speech. Any attempt to maintain such a view will lead to very artificial phonemicization.

1997 Kurds & Kurdistan 288 The McCarus volume has an advantage over that of Wahby and Edmonds in that a more accurate phonemicization is used.

1972 M. L. Samuels Linguistic Evol. iii. 37 It is still possible to argue that what appears to us as coincidental is in fact nothing of the sort, and that the functional pressures towards phonemicisation are more important than the mechanical.

1991 Trans. Philol. Soc. 89 i. 51 Loss of final -e brought about..the phonemicization of lengthened short vowels for which no appropriate long vowel template existed.